Mandatory Training For Care Homes

In care homes, training and education of both care assistants and nurses is vital. It is essential that high quality care is delivered, standards are maintained and that staff are motivated.

There are always some staff members who are reluctant to participate in training. We should not be frightened of training but it should be looked upon as part of our everyday work.

Care homes provide treatment to vulnerable individuals and the quality of care provided is largely determined by the staff within the service – many of whom are care assistants. The Care Standards Act 2000 (standard 28) requires three days annual training for care home staff.

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Mandatory Training For Care Homes – the requirements

Annual mandatory training courses must include fire safety, moving and handling, and health and safety. There is also an expectation that every shift is covered by at least one person who has been trained in first aid. This can be a huge but necessary expectation of both the staff and the home.

Which Training Courses are Mandatory for Care Homes?

Mandatory Training For Care Homes – This is not a straightforward answer and ultimately the requirements will vary depending on the size of the Care Home, its services and outcome from its own risk assessment on site.

Regulation 23 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 states:

The registered person must have suitable arrangements in place in order to ensure that persons employed for the purposes of carrying on the regulated activity are appropriately supported in relation to their responsibilities, to enable them to deliver care and treatment to service users safely and to an appropriate standard by:

(a) Receiving appropriate training, professional development, supervision and appraisal; and

(b) Being enabled, from time to time, to obtain further qualifications appropriate to the work they perform.

Outcome 14 is the outcome that CQC uses to ensure a service meets the requirements stipulated in regulation 23 and this states:

People who use services:

Are safe and their health and welfare needs are met by competent staff

This is because providers who comply with the regulations will:

Ensure that staff are properly supported to provide care and treatment to people who use services.

Ensure that staff are properly trained, supervised and appraised.

Enable staff to acquire further skills and qualifications that are relevant to the work they undertake.

The common mandatory courses for a care home would be:

Health and Safety awareness training

Food Hygiene

Manual Handling or/and Moving and Handling of People

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults or Safeguarding Children

Infection Control

Emergency First Aid at Work

This list could also include Mental Capacity Act training. Fire Safety training is not mentioned within this list as this would result, where required, from the organisations statutory Fire Risk Assessment.

These courses also reflect and address many of the Common Induction Framework objectives.

Professional registration and development requirements relates to Medicines Administration for Qualified Nurses and Supervision, Care Planning and Report Writing training.

The key is to enable staff to take part in learning and development that is relevant and appropriate so that they can carry out their role effectively.

The Care Quality Commission

Their job is to check whether hospitals, care homes, GPs, dentists and services registered with them are meeting national standards.

Their website also offers guidance on the requirements and you should refer to these to ensure you are monitoring your compliance to the required standards.

They do this by inspecting services and publishing their findings, helping people to make choices about the care they receive. To see more information on their requirements for training in the Care Home environment, please visit their website: http://www.cqc.org.uk/

Good standards of health and safety in the workplace do not happen of their own accord. Safe systems of work have to be devised and implemented, staff have to be trained and equipment needs to be purchased and maintained.

In other words, health and safety has to be managed as much as any other part of the business. High-performing companies recognise that managing health and safety is not only a legal duty but makes good economic sense.

For more information on ourMandatory Training For Care Homes offered by Liverpool Training Solutions and how we can help you find the right training courses for your business please email us. Or alternatively, call us on0151 515 0416 and speak with one of our training Consultants.

Which Training Courses are Mandatory in Social Care?

We receive a considerable number of calls from clients, wanting to purchase the list of'Mandatory Courses' for Social Care staff. Clearly this topic is causing a fair amount of confusion in the sector and so we hope this article will clarify the issue.

Firstly we need to make this very clear:

“There is no single list, which applies universally to every care provider.”

Training is defined as mandatory if it meets one or more of the following criteria:*It is a statutory requirement.**All staff across the organisation require the training.**It is a CQC or local authority requirement.*

Please note the guidance provided here is written for care providers in England.Care providers in the rest of the UK should contact the equivalent bodies in your country.

Mandatory training is the training you are expected to provide for your staff following statutory requirements such as the Health and Safety at Work Act, requirements of your local authority, and the requirements specified by the CQC. All care organisations have a legal responsibility to provide staff withHealth & Safetyawareness training, includingFire Safety. Moving and Handlingtraining is also mandatory and if staff are involved with preparing food or assisting at meal times thenFood Safety and Hygiene training will also be mandatory.

There is a difference between the courses that would be considered mandatory for your organisation and the courses you will need to provide in order to be able to issue a Care Certificate. To receive a Care Certificate, your staff member will need to train in and achieve minimum pass marks in ALL the 15 standards. For experienced care staff, this will mean updating their knowledge and experience with the new terminology and practices as appropriate. Any new recruits, who have never worked in social care before, will need to be trained in all 15 standards before you can award them a Care Certificate.

However, only those topics relating to your service provision included in the 15 Standards are MANDATORY for your organisation. Run a Training Needs Analysis to determine what these are, but if you are still not sure which training is required for your organisation, please contact Skills for Care and your local authority. They’ll be able to guide you through. More information is available from the CQC, Skills for Care and the HSE websites.

BVS offers a Mandatory Training bundle for both theHome CareandCare Homesectors which includes training for all these subjects at a discounted price. Other than these, the courses considered mandatory for your organisation, will entirely depend on the care you provide and the person you support. There may also be additional requirements depending on your local authority.

England: mandatory care training and the CQC

The CQC

The CQC is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. It provides extensive guidance to help providers to comply with regulations, the full contents of which can be found here.

In terms of staffing, the CQC requires health and social care providers to:

have sufficient numbers of workers who are suitably qualified and competent, with the necessary skills and experience to meet the needs of their service users.

provide care staff with support, training, professional development, supervision and appraisals that are necessary for them to carry out their role and responsibilities.

support care staff to obtain further qualifications and provide evidence, where required, to the appropriate regulator to show that they meet the professional standards needed to continue to practice.

The CQC have the powers to take regulatory action such as refusing registration should these elements not be in place or if social care providers fail to provide satisfactory evidence that they will continue to comply.

Mandatory training for care home staff

Health and social care workers require adequate induction training and annual refresher training to ensure that they remain up to date with recommended practice and regulatory requirements. Training is defined asmandatory if it meets one or more of the following criteria:

It is a statutory requirement (such as the Health and Safety at Work Act).

All staff across the organisation require the training.

It is a CQC or local authority requirement.

The most common mandatory training subjects for care homes include:

Health and Safety

Fire Safety

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights

Infection, Prevention and Control

Manual Handling

Food Hygiene/Food Safety Awareness

Safeguarding Adults

Safeguarding Children

The full list of mandatory training requirements for an organisation depends on the services it provides, as well as the organisation’s type and size. All care organisations have a legal responsibility to provide staff with Health & Safety awareness training, including Fire Safety. Moving and Handlingtraining is also mandatory and if staff are involved with preparing food or assisting at meal times then Food Safety and Hygiene training will also be mandatory. Additional mandatory training requirements might include Data Protection/Information Governance, Complaints Handling etc...

BVS offers a Mandatory Training bundle for both the Home Care and Care Home sectors which includes training for all these subjects at a discounted price.

Importantly, there is a difference between those courses considered mandatory for an organisation and the courses it must provide to be able to issue a Care Certificate to an individual. To receive a Care Certificate, staff members need to train in and achieve minimum pass marks in ALL 15 Care Certificate standards. However, only those topics in the 15 Standards relating to the service provision provided by the organisation are MANDATORY for the organisation itself.